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Professionalism | Some of the WORST business emails ever sent

Some of the WORST business emails ever sent
Some of the WORST business emails ever sent

Employees use their work emails for numerous reasons such as liaising with colleagues about work projects, organising meetings with clients and generally communicating with people.

As such, emails are a core tool used in the workplace to simply help employees get their job done.

While work emails should be kept professional, there are occasions where employees have slipped up and circulated an inappropriate email to the whole company. A recent Mumsnet thread asked forum users to share some of the most ridiculous work emails that have ever been circulated around the company.

Executive Grapevine has collated the top three:

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